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Future Engineers: Guide on
How to Survive the Year 2035
Jobs and Skills
A guide for the future engineers out there.
An Australian report predicted that in the next
20 years, a huge chunk of employees will act
as remote controls to unmanned vehicles, some
will be personalized preventive health helpers,
and others as online chaperones due to cyber
security.
This report, authored by Commonwealth
Scientific and Industrial Research Organization,
indicates that new skills will be required for the
workforce to learn as we move along with the
Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Unmanned vehicles have started their era and by
2035, all we need are pilots, ship captains and
drivers working on their vehicles even a thousand
miles apart. Personalized preventive health
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helpers will emerge as well, who need to have
great people skills, and the ability to interpret and
understand health and well-being data.
As people around the world age, this kind of jobs
will be significant. Online chaperones will be a
job title as well in the next 20 years because
of the risks imposed by cyber-crime. They will
provide protection and support for online activity.
Transitions within the workplace due to
innovation also mean transition with skills. By
2020, World Economic Forum listed top 10
skills needed in the future workplace, in the
following order as listed in their Future of Jobs
report: complex problem solving, critical thinking,
creativity, people management, coordinating with
others, emotional intelligence, judgment and
decision making, service orientation, negotiation,
and cognitive flexibility.